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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Machine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marx relate Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' to?
(a) Indigenous people.
(b) American colonization.
(c) Political intrigue.
(d) Natural spirituality.

2. What does Marx say is the leading image of industrialism?
(a) The cotton gin.
(b) The steamship.
(c) The factory.
(d) The steam locomotive.

3. Whom does Marx credit with predicting all the evils of industrialism?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) John Orvis.
(c) Daniel Webster.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

4. What kinds of machines especially did Americans welcome at the end of the 18th century?
(a) Machine tools.
(b) Telegraphs.
(c) Railroads.
(d) Milling machines.

5. Who typically espouses the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Industrialists.
(c) Engineers.
(d) Urban planners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of existence did Barlowe describe having encountered in his travels?

2. What trait did American thinkers and writers see in evidence in America's industrial expansion?

3. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?

4. What did Hawthorne describe in the piece Marx analyzed?

5. What is a consequence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

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